Текст (слова) песни: Ulver - A Memorable Fancy, Plates 17-20

An angel came to me and said: O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which thou art going in such career. I said:
Perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we will
contemplate together upon it and see whether your lot or mine is most
desirable.  So he took me thro a stable & thro a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a mill: thro the mill we went, and
came to a cave: down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
void boundless as a nether sky appeard beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: If you please we will
commit ourselves to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you will not, I will?  But he answered: Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear when the darkness
passes away.  So I remaind with him, sitting in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, which hung with the head downward into
the deep. By degrees we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which revolvd vast spiders,
crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of animals sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seemd composed of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion which was my eternal
lot? He said: Between the black & white spiders but now, from between
the black & white spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro the
deep. Blackning all beneath, so that the nether deep grew black as a
sea,& rolled with a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a black tempest, till looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones throw from us
appeard and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about three degrees, appeard a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we discoverd
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in clouds of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his forehead was
divided into streaks of green & purple like those on a tygers forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung just above the raging foam, tinging
the black deep with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a spiritual existence. My friend the angel climbd up from his station
into the mill; I remaind alone;& then this appearance was no more, but I
found myself sitting on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
hearing a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: The man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& breeds reptiles of the mind. 
But I apose and sought for the mill,& there I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I answerd: All that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a bank by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have seen my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours?  He lughd at my proposal; but I by force suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro the night, till we were elevated
above the earths shadow; then I flung myself with him directly into the
body of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborgs volumes, sunk from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: here I staid to rest,& then leapd into
the void between Saturn & fixed stars. Here, said I, Is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be calld.  Soon we saw the stable and the
church,& I took him to the altar and opend the bible, and lo! It was a
deep pit, into which I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we enterd; in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, chaind by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their chains:
however, I saw that they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a grinning aspect, first coupled with,&
then devourd, by plucking off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & kissing it with
seeming fondness, they devourd too; and here & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench terribly annoyd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my hand brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristoteles analitycs. So the angel said: Thy
phantasy has imposed upon me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. I answered:
We impose on one another, & it is but lost time to converse with you
whose works are only analytics.  Opposition is true friendship.
Другие песни Ulver:

A Memorable Fancy, Plate 15
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 12-13
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 17-20
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 22-24
A Memorable Fancy, Plates 6-7
A Song Of Liberty, Plates 25-27
Blinded By Blood
Christmas
Dead City Centres
Djtenjor Gol Og Vejtenjor Maan
Dressed In Black
For The Love Of God
Hymn 1 - Wolf And Fear
Hymn 2 - Wolf And The Devil
Hymn 3 - Wolf And Hatred
Hymn 4 - Wolf And Man
Hymn 5 - Wolf And The Moon
Hymn 6 - Wolf And Passion
Hymn 7 - Wolf And Destiny
Hymn 8 - Wolf And The Night
In The Red
It Is Not Sound
Kledt I Nattens Farger
Lost In Moments
Nowhere - Catastrophe
Operator
Ord
Plate 11
Plates 16-17
Plates 21-22
Plates 5-6
Porn Piece or the Scars of Cold Kisses
Proverbs Of Hell, Plates 7-10
The Argument, Plate 1
The Truth
The Voice Of The Devil, Plate 4
Utreise
We are the Dead
Your Call